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Eric Dale is fired – Margin Call (2011)

Weyland · 2.5M views · 2019-10-26 · 8:34

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Overview

A scene from the 2011 film Margin Call in which risk head Eric Dale is laid off by HR and hands a USB stick to a young analyst. It shows a scripted, impersonal corporate firing.

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Referenced as the canonical depiction of mass layoffs and canned HR scripts whenever layoffs come up.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2022–2023

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What people said

pcurve · 2023-06 · Reference

Reminded me of this scene where Eric Dale was getting let go and HR was regurgitating canned script. [VIDEO]

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greenyoda · 2022-11 · Reference

There's a scene in the movie "Margin Call" (about the 2007-2008 financial crisis) in which most of a floor of employees in an investment bank is laid off: [VIDEO]

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Qub3d · 2022-06 · Reference

That is a major plot point in Margin Call , which is a dramatization of the initial housing bubble crash of 08: [VIDEO]

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